BMW has developed street lights equipped with sockets to charge electric cars, it said on Friday, and will run a pilot project in Munich next year that uses existing local authority lighting networks.

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RELATED: BMW is taking advantage of that infrastructure by installing street lights with electric-car charging sockets in its headquarters city of Munich.

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The lights combine hardware from BMW's own ChargeNow charging stations with LED elements for maximum efficiency. BMW says they can be easily added to the existing municipal infrastructure.

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